vi, 181 p. ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-165) and index

Where the Answers Lie -- Allegory and Kubrick's Allegorical Symbols -- A Preview of Coming Attractions -- The Surface Story -- The Basic Narrative -- Fuzzy Areas of the Narrative -- The Odysseus Allegory -- Dave Bowman's Name -- The African Monolith -- The Judgment of Paris -- Heywood R. Floyd's Name -- Heywood Floyd as Paris -- Heywood Floyd as Menelaus -- The Trojan Horse and the Fall of Troy -- The City of Ismarus and Lotus Land -- The Cyclops Monster -- The Laestrygonian Rock Attack -- The Sirens -- The Surf, Charybdis, and Scylla -- Hyperion and Zeus -- Seven Years with Calypso -- Phaeacian Hospitality -- Pallas Athene -- Penelope, Her Suitors, and the Great Bow -- Slaying the Suitors -- Reunion with Penelope -- The Man-Machine Symbiosis Allegory -- Overview of the Allegory -- The Dawn of Man -- The Evolution of Humanoid Machines -- Hal-Discovery as a Genuine Humanoid -- The Death of Homo Machinus -- The Evolution of Homo Futurus -- What About Freud and Jung? -- The Zarathustra Allegory: Background and Cast -- Nietzsche's Characters and Themes -- Interpretive Progress -- The Monoliths as Human Attributes -- Frank Poole as the Rope Dancer -- Heywood Floyd as the Young Zarathustra -- Dave Bowman as the Older Zarathustra and Overman -- Hal-Discovery as God -- The Zarathustra Allegory: The Action -- The Death of God -- The Immediate Aftermath -- Man into Overman -- Eternal Recurrence -- Fallacies in Zarathustra's Eternal Recurrence Argument -- List of the Zarathustra Allegory's 160 Symbols -- Evaluation -- 2001's Critical Stature in the Absence of Allegory -- The Quality of the Allegory and Symbolism -- One Man's Opinion

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